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Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
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Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
#52I recall reading a phenomenal blog(?) post about data science in history in which the author presented some historical data relating to the northern renaissance (iirc, shipping logs) and then presented two completely plausible but divergent analyses of the data.
I've spent hours trying to find it again on multiple occasions with no success. :(
Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
#53I have lost count of how many stories I'd read here and then wanted to reference it later but could not find it.
I'd started to think maybe I was going crazy, maybe the search feature sucks, maybe the links were removed for one reason or another.
Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
#54Someone mentioned a scifi short story with link to online version that I followed & read. The story was about a uploaded-human AI-spaceship that for a time worked as a asteroid miner. After a single overmind takes over 1st the inner planets, then the whole solar system, the protagonist to flee to insterstellar space, but is pursued by an overmind ship. Been trying to find the story/title/author since, with no success…
I found and lost a similar story. There were no mentions of human characters, only programs that were evolving in their own digital space. It was a standard HTML page amongst a collection of other works, not a book.
Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
#55Bookmarked a post about Document OCR that recreates the whole tables with text.
Lost to wanacry, cannot find it since. Backup is important, learned the hard way.
Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
#56Something about an algorithm designing circuits that shouldn't have worked, but did. I might be mixing another story, but I think it was using electrical interference from an outside source to accomplish its task.
Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
#57Someone mentioned a scifi short story with link to online version that I followed & read. The story was about a uploaded-human AI-spaceship that for a time worked as a asteroid miner. After a single overmind takes over 1st the inner planets, then the whole solar system, the protagonist to flee to insterstellar space, but is pursued by an overmind ship. Been trying to find the story/title/author since, with no success…
Dammit, I know the one you mean and I can't remember where I read it either. Hopefully someone will help us out.
Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
#58Someone posted a youtube talk about Game Design that's applicable to general product design...
I remember it was really good, but couldn't find it anymore
Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
#59Someone mentioned a scifi short story with link to online version that I followed & read. The story was about a uploaded-human AI-spaceship that for a time worked as a asteroid miner. After a single overmind takes over 1st the inner planets, then the whole solar system, the protagonist to flee to insterstellar space, but is pursued by an overmind ship. Been trying to find the story/title/author since, with no success…
"The Long Chase",
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12192254
That discussion has links to books with similar stories. Enjoy.
Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
#60I’ve actually been able to find everything with a little bit of work at most. The search engine is actually reasonably good. I also favorite everything even remotely interesting.
Haha I do the exact same thing. My "favourites" list is a long one.
I started doing it because inside half an hour a post can disappear from the front pages.